Tag: queer theatre

Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Taylor Mac on his 24-Decade History of Popular Music “so much of queer culture has been erased – I wanted to make something so big it couldn’t be ignored”

In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →

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All About My Mother – Theatre Review: The Seven Year Disappear (Pershing Square Signature Center, New York) ★★★1/2

Cynthia Nixon is magnificent in The New Group's Off-Broadway world premiere production of Jordan Seavey's intriguingly meta play The Seven Year Disappear running at The Pershing Square Signature Center through March 31st. Outside the Signature's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, there is an overview of the career of fictional mononymous performance artist Miriam (Nixon). The... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: National Black Theatre’s artistic director Jonathan McCrory “we all have the ability to cultivate a renaissance for our own community”

For over a decade, Harlem-based artist Jonathan McCrory has served as Executive Artistic Director of the groundbreaking National Black Theatre (NBT), though he prefers the term "creative doula". The two-time Obie-winner describes his role as enabling "unseen ideas to be birthed between the parents, which are the playwright and the director, or sometimes the playwright... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop) ★★★★

Playwright Hansol Jung and veteran Tony-nominated director Leigh Silverman reunite, following their collaborations on Cardboard Piano and Wild Goose Dreams, to create an evening of queer bliss with the hilarious lesbian sex comedy Merry Me running at New York Theatre Workshop until Sunday, November 19th. Jung's new play brings together Restoration comedy, Greek theatre, and... Continue Reading →

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Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics launches Dorian Theater Awards to honor Broadway & Off-Broadway

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced this week that it is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the 2022-2023 theater season. Following GALECA’s established Dorian film and TV honors, its Dorian Theater Awards will celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+ themed productions. While... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway) ★★★★

Playwright Thomas Bradshaw retains the spirit of one of Chekhov's most celebrated works while bringing it sharply into present day America with his adaptation, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, currently receiving its world premiere Off-Broadway produced by The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. As the title suggests, the action has been transposed from rural Russia... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: Blessed Union (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) ★★★★★

There’s a simple pleasure to be had in sitting back and watching everything on stage being done well. Belvoir’s new queer family dramedy, Blessed Union, is seamlessly terrific. Funny, emotive, and probing. Flawless. No notes. I could end the review here, but obviously I won't... Ruth (Danielle Cormack) and Judith (Maude Davey) have always upheld... Continue Reading →

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